Wednesday, March 25, 2015

In Canadian Stroke Best Practice Recommendations, the Heart
& Stroke Foundation of Canada offers health care providers best practice
recommendations for transitioning patients to long-term care following a
stroke.

This online resource is broken down into multiple parts,
including recommendations, the rationale for those recommendations, system
implications, performance measures, implementation resources, knowledge
transfer tools and a summary of the evidence supporting the recommendations.

Wednesday, March 18, 2015

The following link leads to a summary of the Canadian Institute for Health
Information’s 2012 report on drug use among Canadian seniors on public drug
programs.

The report is based on data from PEI, Nova Scotia, New
Brunswick, Ontario, Manitoba, Saskatchewan, Alberta, British Columbia and the
federal drug program managed by the First Nations and Inuit Health Branch.

Wednesday, March 11, 2015

Research into the effects of traumatic brain injury has to date largely ignored potential differences between men and women. The CIHR Institute of Gender
and Health attempts to demystify this issue in the January 2015 edition of Science Fact or Science Fiction.

This resource draws attention to the research of Dr. Angela
Colantonio of the Girls & Women with Acquired Brain Injury Lab. Dr.
Colantonio notes, “very little is known about how brain injury affects a
women’s body”.

Wednesday, March 04, 2015

In honour of the Canadian Bioethics Society’s 2nd annual
National Health Ethics Week, the below link is an online resource guide on
health ethics from the Canadian Bioethics Society.

Links to a health ethics trivia game that allows health care
providers to actively engage in the topic of ethics in health care, online
educational videos and more, either developed by the Canadian Bioethics Society
or chosen by its members as trusted resources on health ethics are available.

Also included, is a selected list of the ever popular TED
Talks on related topics such as Aging, Decision-Making and Health Care among
others.

Wednesday, February 25, 2015

The UK-based independent charitable foundation aimed at
improving quality of health care, The Health Foundation, created a quick guide
in the Fall of 2014 which defines person-centred care in long-term care and
explore how to successfully achieve it with simple step-by-step recommendations.

A video gives a brief snapshot of the themes, while the
downloadable PDF guide delves into the development and history of
person-centred care and why it is so important to involve patients/residents in
the decision-making and implementation of the care they receive from their
health care providers.

Wednesday, February 18, 2015

Many older adults transitioning into long-term care facilities
will be coming from independent or assisted living where they were most likely
on their own or in limited company in their day to day lives. This can be quite
different from living in long-term care facilities where there are multiple
residents sharing common living spaces such as dining and recreational
areas. Psychologist Dr. Maggie Gibson of St. Joseph’s Health Care in London,
Ontario identifies key points to consider to ensure patient-centered care in
the St. Joseph’s Health Centre Discussion Guide on Understanding Long-term Care
Facilities as Communal Living Environments.

The discussion guide aims to increase awareness of health care
providers in long-term care facilities of the communal living environments
where they work.

Wednesday, February 11, 2015

Oral health is recognized as an integral part of the overall
health of an individual. However, according to the Institute of Medicine, there
are many patients, especially in long-term care who suffer from overlooked oral
health conditions because of the separation between dental care and health
care.

This brief tip sheet from Annals of Long-Term Care,
published in March 2014, provides healthcare providers with tips on how to
conduct an examination of the oral cavity in elderly patients who have dentures
(or other removable devices). The tip sheet includes step by step instructions
with pictures - beginning with examining the oral cavity with the dentures in
the mouth, then with the dentures removed from the mouth, and finally
recommended procedures for a swallowing test.